Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1887-02-25
stolen Horse and Thief Captured.

stolen Horse and Thief Captured.
AS stated in our last issue Mr.. G. Newton
Trundle, who resides near here, recovered
his stolen horse in Washington city. After
receiving the telegram he and Sheriff Miller
repaired to Washington to identify the ami.
NAL. The thief, also, they found in Jail
charged with stealing wagon, and his name
to be William Colbert, young negro man.
The wagon he had stolen from Fourteenth
street, in the vicinity of the boundary, and
left another old wagon there in its place
that he had stolen in South Washington
The exchange of the wagons was necessita-
ted because the first wagon in his possession
had grown too weak to haul the loads of
ashes that he wished to carry behind Mr..
Trundle's horse.
When Colbert was arrested for stealing
the wagon it was noticed by the detectives
that he was careful to cover the horse with
heavy blanket, though it was warm day.
Thus their suspicion was aroused and the
description of the horse they had found to
NOAhShoC WIN ILLS uAlIndl.
Sheriff Miller and Mr.. Trundle went to
the Washington Jail and saw Colbert The
former asked Colbert what he did with the
saddle he stole with the horse. He denied
stealing the horse. The Sheriff said at is
no use for you 10 deny it, for We have the
evidence of it." Colbert then admitted that
he stole the horse, and also told where the
saddle could be found.
The Sheriff inquired who it was with him
when he took the horse. Colbert asked,
was it man or woman?"
woman, who was she," asked the Sher-
lift. Colbert would not arst tell. s-
"If I mention the name," said the Sher-
if, "will you tell me or not whether she is
the one who was with you ?" "Yes" said
the prisoner
Mag Carroll" called the Sheriff. "Yes,"
said Colbert.
Mag Carroll is the wife of Ed Carroll
who is employed by Mr.. Trunde as u yearly
hand on his farm, but had been left by her
husband, for her intolerable conduct and
driven from Mr.. Trundle's premises by him
self in her attempt to conceal herself in the
kitchen to await her husbands return to
the house at night to wreak her physical
vengeance upon him for his desertion of
her. This plot was frustrated by the SER
want girl Informing Mr.. Trunde of Mays
presence in the kitchen stairs, when she
was Immediately driven away, and swore
vengeance against Mr.. Trundle, saying she
would fix him.
The next morning after the horse was
stolen, woman's tracks were seen around
the stable door. At once suspicion was
aroused that Mag Carroll bad some connec-
ton with the stealing of the horse. On
Friday last, after Colbert's confession, she
was arrested here and confined in Jail.
The District authorities have promised to
abandon their charge OF stealing the wagon
and turn Colbert over to the sheriff OF this
county.
Colbert seems to bea notorious thief Last
Mondays Washington Star reports Col.
berts admission OF stealing Rev Jas b.
Aviretrs horse last November The horse
is now in Washington and will be recov-
cred by its owner after passing through
three different hands since it was stolen.
The capture Of Colbert and the horse is
due to the combined effort Of Mr. Trundle
and his immediate neghbors The value
OF the horse would not justify Mr. Trundle
in offering an individual reward equal To
the amount that was offered and his neigh
bors felt it incumbent upon them for their
future protection to combine and contsiAuLe
an amount of money that would be likely
to secure the thief and put him where he
could do no mere stealing This effort has
been success (there hardly being any doubt
OF Colberts conviction) is another Instances
OF what farmers can accomplish by comb.
nation, and lesson that should be initiated
by all neighborheojs.